Bug 1386193

Summary:	journald stop during qcow image boot up
Product:	Red Hat Storage Console	Reporter:	Martin Kudlej <mkudlej>
Component:	distribution	Assignee:	Nishanth Thomas <nthomas>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	sds-qe-bugs
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Version:	2	CC:	rhartman, sankarshan
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Description Martin Kudlej 2016-10-18 11:40:54 UTC

Description of problem:
Journald cannot start because machine ID is missing:
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd-journald[326]: Failed to get machine id: No such file or directory
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Started Load Kernel Modules.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Mounted FUSE Control File System.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Started Set Up Additional Binary Formats.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Started Load legacy module configuration.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Starting Apply Kernel Variables...
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Mounted POSIX Message Queue File System.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Mounted Huge Pages File System.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Mounted Debug File System.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost kernel: EXT4-fs (vda2): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Failed to start Journal Service.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Flush Journal to Persistent Storage.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Job systemd-journal-flush.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Unit systemd-journald.service entered failed state.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service failed.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Started Create list of required static device nodes for the current kernel.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Started Remount Root and Kernel File Systems.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Started Apply Kernel Variables.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service has no holdoff time, scheduling restart.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Started LVM2 metadata daemon.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Starting LVM2 metadata daemon...
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Starting Journal Service...
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Starting Configure read-only root support...
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Starting Rebuild Hardware Database...
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Starting First Boot Wizard...
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Starting Load/Save Random Seed...
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost kernel: RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost kernel: RPC: Registered udp transport module.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost kernel: RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost kernel: RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Starting Create Static Device Nodes in /dev...
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd-journald[348]: Failed to get machine id: No such file or directory
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Mounted RPC Pipe File System.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Failed to start Journal Service.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Flush Journal to Persistent Storage.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Job systemd-journal-flush.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Unit systemd-journald.service entered failed state.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service failed.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Started First Boot Wizard.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Started Load/Save Random Seed.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service has no holdoff time, scheduling restart.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Starting Journal Service...
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost kernel: Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir.de).
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Mounted NFSD configuration filesystem.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd-journald[360]: Failed to get machine id: No such file or directory
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Started Configure read-only root support.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Failed to start Journal Service.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Flush Journal to Persistent Storage.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Job systemd-journal-flush.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Unit systemd-journald.service entered failed state.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service failed.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service has no holdoff time, scheduling restart.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Starting Journal Service...
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd-journald[365]: Failed to get machine id: No such file or directory
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Failed to start Journal Service.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Flush Journal to Persistent Storage.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Job systemd-journal-flush.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Unit systemd-journald.service entered failed state.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service failed.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service has no holdoff time, scheduling restart.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Starting Journal Service...
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd-journald[366]: Failed to get machine id: No such file or directory
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Failed to start Journal Service.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Flush Journal to Persistent Storage.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Job systemd-journal-flush.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Unit systemd-journald.service entered failed state.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service failed.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service has no holdoff time, scheduling restart.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: start request repeated too quickly for systemd-journald.service
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Failed to start Journal Service.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Flush Journal to Persistent Storage.
Oct 18 07:10:48 localhost systemd[1]: Job systemd-journal-flush.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rhscon-appliance-0.3-9.x86_64.qcow2

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. as it is described in documentation for qcow for libvirt

Actual results:
journald cannot start.

Expected results:
journald will start and run.

Comment 2 Shubhendu Tripathi 2018-11-19 05:42:06 UTC

This product is EOL now